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In the week when the British economy returns to pre-crisis levels, we take a look at the life of a pound coin during a single week, in an attempt to explain why the British economy manages to be so dynamic.
Our coin's tale begins with George Osbourne, as he spends our taxes to buy a Revolting Peasants cocktail at Jolly Cedric's Wank-Bar For Toffs. 20% of the cost goes to the taxman, so at the p...

According to an anonymous source who alleges to be a high-level member of Parliament, even the British government doesn't understand the British monetary system.
The fundamental British currency, the Pound Sterling, usually referred to simply as...

Chancellor of the not-only-English Exchequer George Osbourne has suffered a severe bout of whiplash, courtesy of his considerably hard neck.
It is believed it ocurred when insisting that an Independent Scotland would not be allowed to use the Poun...

Bristol has launched its own currency, the Bristol pound, in an attempt to prevent money from flowing out of the area. A number of shops and businesses have signed up to the hare-brained scheme, and will accept Bristol pounds alongside the usual poun...

With Germany still choosing not to make any official response to the growing rumor that they plan to announce their withdrawal from the euro and a return to the Deutsche Mark this Friday, the Greek premier George Papandreou decided to jump ship even...

Greece will leave the Euro and join the pound. The news was confirmed last night by Prime Minister Davos Cameron and the Chancellor Georgios Osbourne. Monetary union with Greece is not an official coalition policy, but nobody really cares about those...

George (Ozzy) Osbourne, UK Chancellor, revealed today that at his recent meeting with Jean-Claude Trichet, President of the European Central Bank he had tabled a bid to buy out the Euro for 1 Trillion UK pounds.
The bid is backed by Goldman Sachs...

The government is to introduce a new vole-based economic strategy, in an effort to address its flagging popularity.
David Cameron told a puzzled press conference: "We have decided to widen the scope of the Big Society by including small rodents. T...

LONDON, England - Last week, Brown had called me to his office to release to me an exclusive story about the Pound. Brown had felt that the Pound was in danger of being devalued by the emerging acmetal (ACME) world fiat currency, backed only by the...

LONDON, England - Brown called me to his office to release to me an exclusive story about the Pound. Brown felt that the Pound was in danger of being devalued by the emerging acmetal (ACME) world fiat currency, backed only by the IMF and the U.N., t...

The British Pound rallied in the markets today, rising an impressive 8% against the Borneo wogga bean. There are now 244 wogga to the Pound.
The GDP was still disappointing against most "major" currencies, but Gordon Brown was optimistic.
Spe...

The Bank of England has announced that it is going to print 700 billion Euros in order to devalue the once worthless currency which will soon be worth more than the pound.
The currency will be shipped over to the continent and dumped on Dunkirk b...

The United Kingdom is about £2 trillion in debt - which equates to £33,000 for every man, woman and child in the country.
Removing the 40% of the population who don't/can't work, are children or retired means every working person owes about £47,6...

It has just been announced that after weeks of careful intelligence gathering, the metropolitan police have found the gangland mastermind who has been producing counterfeit £1 coins.
During a dawn raid on 10 Downing Street; armed officers from the...

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